FreeThinker Book Club

The book for this month’s discussion is:

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by
Andrea Wulf

Westwood is a Unitarian Universalist Congregation that has been approved as a certified Freethinker congregation by the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association.

The Freethinker book club at Westwood is an inclusive group that welcomes people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities and incomes to join in respectful discussion of the topics raised in the books we read.

The book titles are democratically selected by the members of the book club.

Selection of a particular book does not imply endorsement of the book’s perspective by FreeThinker members or by the Westwood Congregation.

This bookclub meets via Zoom except for the June meeting which is the traditional Pitch Night where the books for the next year are chosen, in person.

If you’d like to join in, please contact freethinker@westwoodunitarian.ca

This year’s selections are:

September
The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters
Timothy Caulfield

October
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum

November
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
Andrea Wulf

January
Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation
Murray Sinclair

February
Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)
C.P. Champion & Tom Flanagan

March
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Hannah Ritchie

April
Tree: a Life Story
David Suzuki and Wayne Grady

May
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky

Bonus Reads
The Heat Will Kill You First:  Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad